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#1 2011-04-01 14:16:27

shadyabhi
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[SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

tv.com looks like http://i.imgur.com/ogQSr.png on chrome

while on firefox it looks like  http://i.imgur.com/zu4Y3.png

Look at the fonts of paragraphs. What can I do to solve the issue?

Last edited by shadyabhi (2011-04-01 20:05:46)

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#2 2011-04-01 18:43:50

Proofrific
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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

Have you tried installing Microsoft fonts? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MS_Fonts

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#3 2011-04-01 18:49:09

shadyabhi
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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

Yes, I have ttf-ms-fonts installed. Anyways, on my install, chrome renders the webpages just fine..

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#4 2011-04-01 19:33:46

azleifel
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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

I don't know about Chrome but that page doesn't look too bad here in Firefox 4:
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I had to spend some time re-setting-up the fonts on my system after the upgrade to Firefox 4 but I wonder whether it might just be a problem with that specific page.  The style sheet indicates that it uses Helvetica with fallbacks to Arial and sans-serif.  Perhaps you have a bit-mapped Helvetica font installed and are missing one or more of the links in fontconfig's /etc/fonts/conf.avail that alias Helvetica to something better (one or more of 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf, 45-latin.conf and 60-latin.conf)?

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#5 2011-04-01 19:58:48

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

Try

pacman -R xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-100dpi

if applicable.


zʇıɹɟʇıɹʞsuɐs AUR || Cycling in Budapest with a helmet camera || Revised log levels proposal: "FYI" "WTF" and "OMG" (John Barnette)

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#6 2011-04-01 20:05:12

shadyabhi
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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

SanskritFritz wrote:

Try

pacman -R xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-100dpi

if applicable.

Hmm. That worked. Thanks.
Reason?

Last edited by shadyabhi (2011-04-01 20:06:29)

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#7 2011-04-01 20:11:43

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

Reason is simple, those are bitmap fonts, but fallback for fonts, like helvetica and times.


zʇıɹɟʇıɹʞsuɐs AUR || Cycling in Budapest with a helmet camera || Revised log levels proposal: "FYI" "WTF" and "OMG" (John Barnette)

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#8 2014-03-18 16:56:02

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

Just great! I couldn't go on with that horrible font rendering.
Moreover because the main socials have Helvetica!

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#9 2014-03-18 17:28:04

jasonwryan
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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in firefox 4

Please don't necrobump (especially with an empty post): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27



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